Every news source in the country is carrying on about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine, but have you considered any other point of view? Whether you’re watching CNN or listening to NPR, the reports are the same. High level talks are going nowhere, tension is mounting, and troops are taking up position at the border. Everyone is preparing for war, except for the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. He appeared on RT.com and offered a unique point of view.
Craig Murray: First thing to say is, of course, there isn’t going to be a Russian invasion. This is a fuss concocted out of nothing. And partly it’s to do with… in the United Kingdom, you have a government in, in deep trouble and very unpopular. You have the same with Joe Biden. Joe Biden is plumbing depths of unpopularity that no president has ever plumbed before except for Donald Trump. So a fond distraction, saber rattling, war mongering is always something which politicians turn to and which generally they can rely on their media to deflect and take up.
You read that right. Murray says the Biden Administration is hyping this Russia-Ukraine conflict to distract from its own failures, and the American media are following his lead. Of course, there are more than the political benefits.
We’re trying to stir this up because you know what a new cold war also does? It benefits the military industrial complex. The height of global arms sales was 1980.
Global defense spending hit a low point in 2000.
Is anyone in the west reporting on this? Of course not.
If it was real journalism, they would be interviewing that guy from the UK, the diplomat who is from that region, just to give a different point of view. You have to come to a website to listen to me where I had to scour to find that interview on YouTube. That’s a problem with the western media when it only pushes one narrative.
“Russia bad” is good for the defense industry. Never forget that.
Don’t be tricked into another war so that a president with bad numbers can make you forget about it. Stay awake, everybody.
